Glimpses & Impressions: Strata Silicon Valley AI ML Review – Part One

At the end of March, I had the good fortune of visiting the Silicon Valley to attend Strata Hadoop World 2016. As it was my first visit to the Silicon Valley, I made pilgrimages to more than a dozen technology companies. At the Strata conference, I made it a priority to engage in exchanges with machine learning and artificial intelligence technology companies. Two things from this trip left the deepest impressions on me: 1. I realized that start-up companies are the main driving force behind the flourishing field of data science tools.